And about time too!

[kleinboet]

Thanks Phil.

We have this stupid cross hatching in Cheltenham. Brenda has progressive MS and is now wheelchair bound, and apart from it being difficult to get across, it is damned unpleasant.

 

I was looking for this newspaper article but couldn't find it.

 

A 14 year old, texting while cycling through the "pedestrianised" area of Cheltenham, hit a 78 year old woman so hard he broke her leg and, when she fell, her hip. the little scrote fetched his bike and shouted that she should have got out of his way and started to ride off. A 70 year old man stopped him by putting his stick through the bikes spokes.

When the police arrived they decided they were NOT going to prosecute as said scrote was only 14!

The stick man was charged with criminal damage to the bike and "a reckless action that could have caused serious injury!

JUSTICE?????

Edited October 25, 2009 by kleinboet

[Ken L]

The problem here is the tendancy to treat all cyclists as if they were some spotti 15 year old with no lights, no helmet, no breaks and no sence of social responsiblility. Clearly that doesn't describe most cyclists because most of them are" invisible" to you and the only cyclists that enter your conciousness do so because they're acting like knobs - therefore in your mind, all cyclists act like knobs.

 

Same goes for women drivers. Most are perfectly good drivers (the insurance companies certanly seem to think so) but if you see a stupid manouver and the driver happens to be femail, it will re-inforce your prejudacies in a may that iwouldn't happen if the idiot were male.

 

Same goes for kids in hoodies or black people or whatever minority people have negative stereotypes about. You simply don't notice the ones that act responsibly, but as soon as a line is crossed, they stand out and reinforce your internal preducice

[Jim Roper]

I'm no great fan of SOME of KB's views but this kind of constant name calling and poking is tiresome.

 

I'll second that.

 

KB is, at least, on 'legal' drugs as far as I understand.

Edited October 25, 2009 by Jim Roper

[jeepster]

I'm no great fan of SOME of KB's views but this kind of constant name calling and poking is tiresome.

 

Put me on ignore then, or don't, whichever is cool with me...........

[kleinboet]

I have made a point lately to observe all cyclists. I would put the sensible, responsible cyclists at 40%, no more. And, they are not all spotty teenagers - what about the middle aged woman going up a slight incline, standing on pedals and wobbling dangerously from side to side, and there is the "professional" bike rider, all kitted up in lycra shorts and sporting a helmet. He will weave through traffic at the lights, get on the pavement and then cross the road using the PEDESTRIAN crossing against the lights, only to get back on the road again!

 

As for women drivers, stop to let them through where a parked car makes impossible for two cars to pass and they drive past, eyes in front, ignoring you. A man, on the other hand, will usually acknowledge the courteous gesture!

Edited October 25, 2009 by kleinboet

[Guest Brumagem Phil]

Put me on ignore then, or don't, whichever is cool with me...........

 

 

NO! YOU modify your tone mate....play the ball not the man.

[Guest Brumagem Phil]

You know who you are...any more offensive four letter outbursts by PM and you'll be reported to the site owner.

[jeepster]

Well I can't PM you can I, you've turned it off, I wasted 5 minutes writing some of the most Tucker-esque filth I could summon, and for what.....

 

'sorry this member is not using the messenger'

 

I have no idea why you're getting so agitated over someone you don't know writing things on a forum about somebody else you don't know.......

[barry luxton]

Not a bad bit of entertainment for a cycling topic i suppose.

[jeepster]

That's what I thought Barry, there's not much on telly either.